RFA C625

RFA C625

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Subsequent name: 

Official Number:                      169831                                                        

Class:                                     Oil Fuel Lighter

Pennant No:                           X05

Laid down:
Builder:                                  Yarwood, Northwich
Launched:                              7 January 1944 
Into Service:                           April 1944
Out of service:                        17 September 1963
Fate:                                      sold out of service

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Background Data:   Naval Stores harbour craft were usually allocated a number bearing the prefix C. This descended from the days when the Coaling Officer operated the fuelling craft and many of these craft were operated by the Naval Stores Department under the Director of Stores (Navy) C numbers were allocated to craft such as dumb barges, coal lighters, dumb coal lighters, self-propelled diesel lighters, self-propelled stores lighters, launches and tugs of which a number were registered as RFA’s and wore the ‘green stripe’ that indicated the Naval Stores Department

7 January 1944 launched by  W. J. Yarwood & Sons (1938) Ltd, Northwich as Yard Nr 726 named  C625 for the Naval Stores Department

1944 completed

17 September 1963 sold